Black Hole
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Iconic black hole image to ‘artificial embryos’, 2019 was year of many firsts in science
Science | Dec 27, 2019, 05:46 PM ISTCutting edge innovations in research and technology celebrated science and forwarded humankind's understanding of complex realities of the universe. The year will also be remembered as the year of testing biological and ethical limits in the laboratory, helping researchers find new avenues in the treatment of critical diseases.
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Scientists discover monster black hole, 70 times bigger than Sun
Science | Nov 28, 2019, 01:17 PM ISTUntil just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.
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Pune-based student creates violent black hole flares
Science | Oct 12, 2019, 09:30 PM ISTThe black hole system studied is named MAXI J1820+070 and was first discovered in early 2018. About 10,000 light years away in our own Milky Way, it has the mass of about seven suns.
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Incredibly rare! Black hole shreds star as huge as Sun
Science | Sep 27, 2019, 01:49 PM ISTNASA said that the tidal disruption event was discovered by the ASAS-SN -- a worldwide network of 20 robotic telescopes headquartered at Ohio State University (OSU) in the US on January 29.
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40-year-old black hole mystery solved by 'best ever' simulation
Jun 06, 2019, 11:47 AM ISTThe finding solves a longstanding mystery, originally presented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen and astrophysicist Jacobus Petterson in 1975.
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Black Hole Memes: Social media army turns first image into hilarious memes
Trending | Apr 13, 2019, 07:57 PM ISTIt's funny how the efforts of hundreds of astronomers have been converted into memes.
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Picture was clear, but black hole’s name a little fuzzy
Apr 13, 2019, 06:12 PM ISTThe newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.
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First ever blackhole images extraordinary feat: Indian scientists
Apr 11, 2019, 05:52 PM ISTIndian scientists have hailed the compilation of the first ever real images of a blackhole as an "extraordinary feat" that sheds more light on the mysterious, warped region of the space-time fabric and how galaxies like our Milky Way evolve over time.
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Shoojit Sircar's tweet about black hole gets a hilarious response from Amitabh Bachchan
Celebrities | Apr 11, 2019, 02:45 PM ISTAmitabh Bachchan is on a roll! His latest tweet directed to Shoojit Sircar is a proof.
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Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole
Apr 10, 2019, 07:29 PM ISTAssembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood around a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades.
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83 supermassive black holes found in early universe
Mar 14, 2019, 01:59 PM IST"It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang," said Michael Strauss, a professor at Princeton University in the US
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Believe it or not! Scientists may have seen birth of black hole | DETAILS INSIDE
Jan 14, 2019, 04:15 PM ISTResearchers from Northwestern University in the US are getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer.
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Now, explore supermassive black hole through new VR simulation
Nov 20, 2018, 09:37 AM ISTThe scientists used recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* to create a series of images that were then put together to create a 360 degree virtual reality simulation of the black hole, that can be viewed on widely available VR consoles.
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AI helps track down mysterious cosmic signals; searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
Sep 12, 2018, 12:51 PM ISTResearchers are also applying the successful machine-learning algorithm to find new kinds of signals that could be coming from extraterrestrial civilisations.
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Astronomers spot giant black hole, 20 million times massive than Sun, eating up star
Jun 18, 2018, 04:27 PM ISTThe scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, in a pair of colliding galaxies 150 million light-years from Earth.
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LIGO, NASA research of neutron collision indicate birth of new black hole
Jun 04, 2018, 12:19 PM ISTIt is being estimated that the gravitational waves detected last year may have led to the lowest mass black hole ever found, says the scientist who analysed data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes
Jun 28, 2017, 04:14 PM ISTIn what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other in a distant galaxy.
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Glimpse of Black Hole by the illumination of Big Bang: Astronomers
World | Feb 17, 2016, 06:28 PM ISTWashington: Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a jet from a very distant super-massive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the universe.The discovery shows that black holes with powerful jets
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NASA finding bolsters Indian theory on black hole
India | Nov 24, 2015, 06:37 PM ISTBangalore: An Indian astrophysicist says the recent observation by NASA scientists of giant flares of X-rays from a black hole confirms his theory that the so-called black holes are not "true" black holes but actually
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Black hole winds carry more energy than a trillion suns
World | Feb 20, 2015, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: When most people think of supermassive black holes, they think of large, destructive forces sucking up everything which gets in its field of gravity. However, researches have now discovered that they may have